forepart (plural foreparts)

1. The front or anterior part of something.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXXVIII:

     The wing being suppos'd placed in the upmost limit, seems to be put so that the plain of it lies almost horizontal, but onely the forepart does dip a little, or is somewhat more deprest […].

   • 1902, Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness”, in Youth: A Narrative: And Two Other Stories, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and sons, OCLC 926810891 ↗, part II, page 100 ↗:

     I became aware that the two were standing on the shore alongside the forepart of the steamboat, just below my head.